Chapter 206 Two Divine Artifacts!

"What's your name?"

Xiao En stared at the little girl in front of him. She looked about 40 or years old, with a big head that was slightly disproportionate to her body. Although her facial features were beautiful and delicate, her body was too weak, so she looked like a strange morbid beauty, just like the space humans in science fiction with developed brains but degenerated bodies. Xiao En could tell at a glance that the girl in front of him had a hidden genetic defect, which was artificially modified by the Mind Flayer. This genetic defect made their lifespan very short, and they might only live to about years old.

But this is a weird country with the laws of life and flesh. Gene trees can be modified, so a little genetic defect is not a big problem.

The girl stared at Xiao En in front of her, and said in a soft voice without much emotion: "Number 175201."

no name.

They only have numbers, just like the livestock kept in a farm.

Xiao En was silent for a moment, and then he said softly, "Humans should have their own names."

"How about this."

"I'll give you a name."

He pondered for a moment, clapped his hands and said, "Got it. From now on, you will be called Pandora."

"Pandora?" The girl chewed on the name and whispered, "A character in ancient Greek mythology, the first woman made of clay by Hephaestus. She was the first woman given to mankind by the gods as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire."

The girl's knowledge is unexpectedly profound. In addition to extraordinary powers, she seems to have mysterious knowledge and knows many things that ordinary people don't know.

Xiao En said calmly: "Pandora means 'the woman with all talents'."

The girl nodded gently and said, "Okay, Master."

"From now on I will be called Pandora."

Xiao En shook his head slightly and said, "Don't call me master, you can call me teacher."

Pandora's eyes trembled slightly, and she lowered her head and said obediently: "Teacher."

Xiao En smiled and said softly, "Tell me what you have learned before."

If the Mind Flayer Suen wants to cultivate humans with high intelligence, he must teach them enough knowledge, and even develop their brains through forced learning, but he cannot let them master extraordinary powers. So for the past ten years, the girls have to be forced to learn since they could speak. If they cannot pass the assessment test, the remaining ones will be eliminated and will be sent to the Mind Flayer's table one after another.

Pandora pondered for a moment and said: "Astronomy, geography, history, painting, culture, sculpture..."

"Teacher, I have a photographic memory."

Never forget?

Xiao En's expression was slightly surprised. The girl in front of him had basically maxed out all the secondary knowledge. Judging from the fact that she knew ancient Greek mythology, the compulsory education she received might be beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Pandora seemed to have guessed what Sean was thinking, and whispered, "The Suen Mind Flayer looted the Great Library during the Dark Ages."

"I have read many books about Earth civilization."

Xiao En was shocked and said, "You know about Earth civilization?"

"Yes." Pandora said calmly, "In order to further improve our intelligence attributes, the last 5% of surviving human breeders will read the books and knowledge left over from the Dark Ages until we break through the limits of ordinary people."

If she had not been sent to the feeding grounds, she would have become a breeder at the 12 Skull Farms, and the ones she would have mated and reproduced would have been blood relatives who were just as excellent as her.

Inferior bloodlines were eliminated, and those with obvious genetic defects were also eliminated.

Those people turned into monstrous, ugly giant-brained people.

Xiao En's eyes showed a trace of pity. He gently stroked the girl's smooth forehead and said in a cold tone: "Show me the way and take me to the 12 skull farms."

Pandora said obediently: "Yes, teacher."

In an instant.

Xiao En's mind network connected to the girl in front of him. Her expression was slightly surprised. Xiao En said calmly: "You have a suppressed awakening psychic talent in your body."

"It's a genetic lock planted by the Mind Flayer."

"Don't worry, I'll open it for you."

They are born with psychic powers.

Although it is not a manifest ability, it is enough to develop psionic talents, just like the Githyanki transformed by the mind flayers. However, the genetic technology tree of the Suen mind flayers is indeed powerful, and their psionic powers are suppressed in the womb.

Garden World, 12 Skull Farm.

This is actually a large human city, and it even feels like a university town.

The 12 Skull Farms have bred more than humans, and are among the largest farms in the entire Garden World. As soon as Sean arrived, he discovered that this place had entered a state of alert. However, due to the obstruction of [God's Eyes], even the Big Brain could not detect and predict Sean's movements.

Pandora pointed to a library building in the distance and said, "That's the big library, where we study every day."

"You must pass the intelligence development test and have an intelligence of 15 points or more before you can enter and study."

“We conduct tests every three months and those who fail are sent elsewhere.”

Sean saw humans.

But most of them were only in their teens, all of them were young children, their expressions were numb, as if their hearts were closed, although Pandora opened her heart under his psychic comfort, but mentally she was still only twelve or thirteen years old, but her intelligence was very high and it was not obvious. Most of these human teenagers looked a bit like autistic children, and from a strange dome building not far away, several mind flayers could be seen using psychic energy to control dozens of children to walk out.

In the 12 skull farms, the mind flayers will carefully select talented human babies, force them to learn from the age of three, and eliminate a group of people through regular assessments. Those who fail will be sent to the mind flayer's restaurant, and those who pass will be forced to learn further. Failure to pass the assessment often means a cruel death. However, the best of them will be well raised by them, because these humans have extremely high value and will be given to the top leaders of the mind flayers, or even directly to the brain statues of the great master brain.

The humans that breed here are slaughtered every 18 years. It is a feast for the mind flayers. The last 5% of humans survive. They serve as breeders and give birth to offspring. Then, after they lose their usefulness, they are sent to many feeding grounds.

The 12 Skulls are advanced farms with a great environment, similar to that of human cities. Apart from demanding tests and compulsory studies, the Mind Flayers will provide them with all the food they need.

But very few people can live beyond 30 years old, and even breeders cannot die of old age.

In addition, there are farms on the Garden Planet that breed giant brains. The environment there is much dirtier and messier. Giant brains are daily food to meet the basic survival needs of the mind flayers. A qualified human slave needs 15 years of learning to grow into a real fine food ingredient.

There are probably millions of humans and human subspecies across the Garden Planet.

The Suen mind flayers need to eat a brain every month, and without sufficient population, their needs cannot be met at all. Most of the human teenagers who survived in the 12 skull farms have an intelligence of more than 15 points. They will be further tested after adulthood, and finally 95% of them will be slowly eliminated.

"These people are natural born spellcasters."

Xiao En's eyes were dim. Their birth was a disaster for mankind. The Suen Mind Flayers had spent nearly a thousand years breeding these highly intelligent degenerate humans. Because of their desire for high-quality brains, the Suen Mind Flayers even modified their human genes. Because of the precedent of the Githyanki rebellion, the Suen Mind Flayers strictly limited their lifespans to prevent any human from being promoted to extraordinary beings, and regularly consumed the cultivated excellent individuals. In the past thousand years, no one knew how many people had become food for the Mind Flayers.

——"Lost Star People (Human Subspecies): After a thousand years of genetic modification and artificial reproduction by the Suen Mind Flayer, the genes of the Lost Star People have been completely distorted. Their minds are closed, just like those with autism, and their cognition of the outside world is very vague. They have congenital genetic defects and a very short lifespan, usually only living to 40 years old. Because of the harsh forced learning when they were young, the Lost Star People have the ability to memorize knowledge, which helps them speed up the efficiency of learning knowledge."

——"Racial Talents: Strength -2, Agility -2, Constitution -2, Intelligence +4, Perception +2, Charisma -2." (The Lost Star Citizens are very weak. Their bodies lack exercise and their lifespans are short. Due to genetic modification, their appearance is slightly weird, and their heads are obviously larger than those of ordinary people.)
——"Racial expertise: erudition, forced learning, fast learning, and rapid mastery." (The Lost Star Citizens have no parents. They are bred and raised by the Mind Flayers. They have been forced to learn since they were three years old. Those who fail to meet the requirements are eliminated, and only the best ones can reproduce. They can force themselves into a state of high-efficiency learning.)
——"Racial talent: Psionic awakening. Closed mind." (The Lost Star Citizens have 2 basic psionic points, but this does not give them the ability to use psionic power unless they are promoted to the level of Manifestors. The minds of the Lost Star Citizens are twisted and closed by the Mind Flayers. Unless their mental defects are cured, they will have certain personality cognitive disorders.)
——"Talented Occupation: Mage, Psion."

The mysterious knowledge in Sean's brain has deduced the racial attributes of the humans on the Garden Planet. Strictly speaking, they are already a subspecies of humans.

There are at least a hundred thousand humans on the entire Garden Planet with a natural intelligence of 14 or above.

Although they have serious genetic defects, weak constitutions, and closed minds, their intellectual talents have been developed to the limit. If these people are given a chance, who knows how many powerful spellcasters will be born. The Suen Mind Flayer knows this, so he strictly guards against any human being from becoming a Transcendent, and kills them without mercy once they are found.

"what is that?"

Xiao En was thinking about how to solve the space colony of Suen Mind Flayer while preserving these lost stars, but suddenly he felt a strong psychic fluctuation, and then his will invaded the other party's telepathy, unknowingly leaving a 'thought mark'.

One of the mind flayer psions (CR 8) whispers psionically, "Did you know? There was a terrible explosion at the Grand Dining Hall."

"The mind flayers of the 13th Fleet suffered heavy losses."

"The cause of the explosion is still unclear!"

"The elder brains have urgently summoned all the soul eaters."

Another mind flayer replied, "I heard about it, but I don't know the reason yet. It is said that Keith is also dead. What a pity, he is a great actor. I have tasted his performance once, and it was unforgettable."

The Heart-stealing Magician asked, "Could it be related to this guy we caught?"

"When he showed up, there was also a big explosion."

Another mind flayer said, "I don't know. That's something the elder brains need to consider. We are only responsible for handing him over to the brain golem."

While talking.

A group of mind flayers came out with a tall adult man. He was obviously not a human from this world because he was wearing a robe with obvious Faerun style. He looked extremely crazy, sometimes lucid and sometimes crazy, muttering: "The Book of Eternal Exile is real!..."

"Praise Suen! ..."

"Everything recorded in the Ebony Mirror is true. The Faraway Kingdom really exists! ... No! ... Where is my Book of Eternal Exile? ... Who stole my Book of Eternal Exile! ..."

"Su En is everything! Su En is Su En! ..."

This guy's mind has gone insane.

Xiao En had also had such an experience. When he was digesting the extraordinary relics of Suen's brain, even with Amon's protection, he was almost devoured by Suen. When mortals touch Suen's spiritual will and sense its existence, they will go crazy little by little, and finally become Suen's fanatics, carrying out all his orders, no matter how crazy and unreasonable the order is.

The law of repulsion.

The mind flayer Suen captured a powerful wizard from another world, but after entering the Far Realm, his spellcasting abilities were distorted and he lost most of his power.

——Mind control!
——Consciousness invasion!
Xiao En's thoughts invaded the brains of these people in an instant, including the wizard from another world. Soon he flipped through some useful information from the other party's memory, about the records of other crystal wall systems about distant countries.

——"The Book of Eternal Exile" [Secondary Artifact]: More than a thousand years ago, a powerful wizard named Ebony Mirror Aifego compiled a terrifying book: The Book of Eternal Exile.

As a scholar who specializes in the study of distant places, time and space, he possesses a magical artifact called the Ebony Mirror. This powerful treasure allows him to see real scenes of the world that are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. These scenes are so strange and terrifying that even immortal beings will shudder.

With the help of this artifact, Efego's research began to enter the mysterious boundary beyond space and reality. In the Book of Eternal Chase, the horrific scenes he saw in the Ebony Magic Mirror were truly recorded. After in-depth and detailed research, Efego discovered and confirmed that in those horrific worlds, there were indeed some abnormal and strange beings living.

The Eternal Chase contains countless forbidden texts, the most terrifying of which is the terrifying Faraway Kingdom. (A world outside a giant ring that is completely different from the normal universe system. Even gods are in danger of going crazy after going there. There are countless strange and powerful creatures there, far beyond the ordinary main material plane or even the outer plane creatures.)
No one knows what became of Aifeiguo, but it is said that the Ebony Mirror still exists, secretly kept in some extremely horrific dungeon.

Artifact!

And there are most likely two artifacts, one is the "Book of Eternal Chase" and the other is the Ebony Magic Mirror.

"This human wizard did not enter the Far Realm through the gate opened by Amon!"

At this moment, Xiao En realized that things were not simple.

After Amon opened the law of the door, many alien visitors entered the weird kingdom, but they were all relatively safe routes. This crazy human wizard did not come in through the door opened by Amon. He may even have come earlier than Amon opened the door, because his mental state had obviously been tortured by the Mind Flayer for a long time.

This human wizard entered the distant country through two artifacts. During the journey, he saw countless indescribable things from the past and his mind had already gone insane.

In the memories of the Dominating Mind Flayer, Suen the Mind Flayer even planned to use him as another batch of breeders to produce another bloodline of human slaves, but he was very difficult to control, often going crazy intermittently, and his brain thinking was completely confused and insane.

He was finally captured by Elder Brain Suen's fleet on a satellite of the Garden Planet. The owner of the 12 skull farms was an Elder Brain.

"Is the Book of Eternal Chariot also on the Garden Planet?" Sean's mental perception instantly expanded to its limit.

——"The Tome of Eternal Exile [Minor Artifact]: This infamous tome was written by the wizard Ebony Mirror Ephegor. It contains horrific knowledge about the distant past, alien worlds, and many strange things. If someone reads this book, he will gain +2 intelligence permanently, but will lose 2 points of perception. In addition, he can also gain 5th-level knowledge (strange things), 5th-level knowledge (arcana), and 5th-level knowledge (different planes)."

——"Ebony Magic Mirror [Artifact]: This strange magic mirror can peek into unknown time and space. It can peek into other crystal wall worlds and even see the past of the ancient gods."

Sean needs the Eternal Chariot.

There are many people in the Weird Kingdom who are born with high perception. As long as they read the Book of Eternal Chase, they can transform their attributes once. This is a magical artifact for mass production of spellcasters.

What’s even more terrifying is that this artifact can turn a human with a natural intelligence of 16 into a genius with a natural intelligence of 18!

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(End of this chapter)